Literary Reviews – Page 63

February 9, 2013

‘The Rise and Fall of the Aragonese-Catalan Empire 1200-1350: Volume II’, J. Lee Shneidman

As is typical lately, something went wrong when I bought this book. Namely, instead of obtaining Volumes I and II, I got only Volume…

February 8, 2013

Just to continue my deceptive method of mentioning the title of a book and then not commenting on the book but on an aspect…

February 5, 2013

As is quite apparent from my previous writings, I am quite an avid reader of anything that Mr Shiba has had published in English…

February 2, 2013

Into the flash fiction category belong a number of very fun and interesting short stories. I found a short page detailing a few of…

January 20, 2013

Let us live to the highest standards, lest we win this war only to find ourselves staring in the mirror at the face of…

January 19, 2013

This is not actually a review of the book but the dedication I saw in there today, for two reasons. Firstly, aside from counting…

January 16, 2013

One of the first books I read this year was John Grisham’s ‘The Broker’. I obtained this book almost accidentally when I noticed Grisham’s…

December 23, 2012

Out of the Great Sea to Middle-earth I am come. In this place will I abide, and my heirs, unto the ending of the…

December 22, 2012

A small island nation was about to enter a period of great cultural change. I believe that one of the best things that happened…

December 16, 2012

“That you will make no deliberate blunders, your character guarantees; if you make the usual ones, well I have long become used to them.”…